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Picture For example. For most of the day, I cannot recall when exactly it began, she’s been standing and walking in that hunched-back pose and panting with her wings hanging out. She hasn’t laid an egg today, but did yesterday. Today was the first time she was put on wire flooring. Im not sure...

Hopefully this isn’t too dislikable a topic. I have a bunch of spiders in my yard, so I am constantly running into them. Lately i’ve just begun to like them, and i suppose I’d like to talk about them. My favorites are definitely the orbweavers. I have a bunch of spiny backed and golden silk...

Yesterday while I was not home, two of my hens were attacked by dogs, and both suffered bite wounds to the neck. One passed away last night from her injuries after I found her, but the other is still alive. the remaining hen is walking, eating, drinking, scratching around, and even laid an egg...

Hello. To summarize the situation; I got a dozen shipped eggs; 4 eggs have completed detached aircells- wobbly, and float around the egg when you move it- I set all of the eggs on the incubator, and am hoping for the best. I use a Nurture Right 360. I understand that eggs with detached aircells...

There’s been threads about this variety before but none lasted long. I am starting my own to prioritize information about the birds, as well as that I am getting BcW chicks from Ideal Poultry in about two weeks. I’ve researched this variety a lot, and there isn’t much information on them...

Hello, I hatched chicks in October and right now one is confusing me on sex. I originally labeled it as male because it had comb growth at 6 weeks old, but the comb never grew any more than what it was at that age. It doesn’t have sharp saddle feathers yet, but in that regard most of it’s...

Hello. I noticed an issue today where some of my chickens had blackness on their combs. It doesn’t look like fowlpox, and i’ve never had this happen before, so i’m confused. Any clue what this is?

Hello. I have a 10 month old cochin bantam cockerel who has recently begun to come into his hormones, and he isn't behaving very well. For some reason he always attempts to mount hens from the front or side, and i've never seen him properly mount a hen, and he's begun to chase them around the...

November 5th or 4th I had a turkey who became ill. He was weak, lethargic and would not move much even for food or water and remained sitting in one spot for days, his head often dropping to the ground. His poop was also greenish-yellow and liquidy. Besides this though, he didn’t have any other...

I have 11 chicks who are all now a little over 4 weeks old, and I like to think I was accurate on the guesses of sex, but if possible could anybody perhaps help confirm whether these chicks are cockerel/pullet? All are barnyard mixes. I am basing my guesses off of comb growth. Please excuse my...

I have a mixed hen who i’ve hatched 13 eggs from at this point. She’s black with gold leakage and the father to all chicks is a porcelain d’uccle. Most of the chicks have hatched out black with varying degrees of gold leakage, but some have hatched out gray instead of black. I am wondering how...

I am sorry if this isn’t the right place for this thread, but I am curious. I am a minor and struggle to make connections and get out of the house, but I really enjoy chickens and domestic birds, and would I think breeding and showing birds would be a good way to get out, and see more of the...

Hello! I have a small number of cochin bantams I’m wanting to breed. Problem is, almost all of them are different colors. I have a partridge hen, 3 red hens, a red rooster, mottled rooster, and a blue rooster. Does anybody know what i’d get if i crossed them together? I assume red to red will...

Hello! I just got two cochin bantams today, and was wondering if anybody would be able to help me identify what color patterns they have, or what genetics they have, if it isn’t too much to ask. 1- I think this is a blue cochin bantam? 2-I don’t for certain know; anybody know what color he is...

Hello! Have a mixed turkey i’d like to find out the genes:variety of. About 2-3 months I think, came from a coop with Royal palm(red leakage) tom, a barred chocolate tom, two black toms, one of which I know was barred, unsure about other. There was a barred chocolate hen, two nargansett hens(I...

Hello, I have a mixed flock of chickens, ranging from older birds that are laying, to younger birds who are close, to chicks who are a few months away from laying. I have them all on layer crumbles, but have read it’s bad for the younger birds and generally anybody who isn’t laying, and since I...

I got my birds from Mcmurray because it was the most availible thing, I have 4 slates(one is lavender? Homozygous for D gene or whatever that causes slates) I know one has a clearly brown feather, and some do, I am wondering about the Lavender because it’s a bit more difficult to tell. He...

Hello! Back at the end of july, I hatched out 8 chicks, and I’m pretty sure i’m evenly split for girls and boys, one has just been confusing me. the chick got the upper half of it’s comb torn off somehow and it’s gone now, so i’m not too sure about sex. This is it at 3 weeks, when I first sexed...

Hello, my family got ducks about 5 months ago and now has one female, one male, both pekins. The plan, as i’d been told, was to let the girl hatch out eggs, but i’ve looked it up and pekins don’t go broody much. She’s probably laid around 13? eggs so far, with a main nest of at least 11 last...

Around July 26 I hatched chicken eggs for the first time by myself. They’re mixed bantams, from two adults I bought, and though i’ve let broody hens hatch eggs and seen hatchings before, theirs was the first I did by myself. I’m a bit proud honestly. Here they were when I first moved them into a...